The FDIC, HUD, Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Reserve, and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) jointly released on Wednesday their proposed revision, which was created in consideration of the industry’s response to the original proposal issued in 2011.

That proposal required lenders to keep a stake in the loans they sold in which borrowers were spending more than 36 percent of their income on payments and in loans with down payments of less than 20 percent. At the time, critics argued it would create an even more restrictive lending environment.

Under the new proposal, the 36 percent income threshold has been raised to 43 percent, relaxing the exemption standards somewhat. The revised rule also eliminates the down payment requirement, opening up lending for low-income borrowers.

The agencies also made adjustments to bring the QRM proposal more in line with the “qualified mortgage” (QM) rule handed down by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) earlier in the year. The alignment opens up the scope of QRM eligibility, which was originally “limited to closed-end, first-lien mortgages used to purchase or refinance a one-to-four family property, at least one unit of which is the principal dwelling of the borrower.”

“[T]he agencies seek to ensure that relevant definitions in the proposed rule and in the CFPB’s rules on and related to QM are harmonized to reduce compliance burden and complexity, and the potential for conflicting definitions and interpretations where the proposed rule and the QM standard intersect,” the 500-page document reads.